Interviewed by the Agency Caucasus, Ahmet Zakayev, Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, said that Russia would not recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia but it would instead try to annex them.
London/Agency Caucasus - Prime Minister Ahmed Zakayev of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria appointed new members of senior officials after he was given the parliamentary go-ahead to construct the body of his cabinet and administration.
Caharkala/Agency Caucasus - Seven Chechen police officers in support of were gunned down by a sniper the Christmas night when they were standing by a Christmas tree, which Ramzan Kadirov, the Kremlin-guided President of Chechnya, planted in central Caharkala and said that it would be the tallest Christmas tree of .
London/Agency Caucasus - Foreign Minister Ahmed Zakayev of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria took a step towards his resignation from his post after he was frustrated in his attempts to deter President Doku Umarov of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from announcing himself as the Emirate of Caucasus.
Paris/Agency Caucasus - Mairbek Vatchagaev, a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Paris, views the declaration of North Caucasus Emirate, which was published with reference to Dokku Umarov, the resistance leader, as an attempt to test the waters.Vatchagayev has conducted several studies on North Caucasian religious communities. He was interviewed by Medvudi Baychora as someone who is reporting for Agency Caucasus.
Strasbourg/Agency Caucasus – Three Chechens won a legal fight against Russia after they went to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in an appeal to seek compensation for their narrow escape of death early in the second war of Chechnya.
Stockholm/Agency Caucasus – Sweden refused to extradite Magomed Uspayev as a Chechen refuge to Russia, the country that killed former President Aslan Mashadov of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
